Dániel Bárth

The Exorcist of Sombor (eBook, ePUB)

The Mentality of an Eighteenth-Century Franciscan Friar

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Exorcist of Sombor examines the life course, practice and mentality of an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar, creating a frame around the tightly packed history of events that took place between 1766-1769, and analysing the series of exorcism scandals that erupted in the Hungarian town of Sombor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000076196
• Artikelnr.: 59447169

Autorenporträt

Dániel Bárth is Associate Professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is also Head of the Department of Folklore and Head of the Doctoral Program of Hungarian and Comparative Folkloristics in the Doctorschool of Literature Sciences. His research interests include archival-historical folkloristics; ethnology of religion; liturgical history and folkloristics; popular culture and everyday life in early modern Hungary; and lower clergy and local society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Splinters of a Biography. The Life Story of Petrus/Rochus
Szmendrovich (1727-1782) 2. Three Years - One Story (Sombor, 1766-1769) 3.
A Town on the Boundary between Western and Eastern Christianity: Religious
and Ethnic Plurality at Sombor in the Eighteenth Century 4. Clerical
History from Beneath. Considerations of a Monastic Order and a Diocese in
the Background of a Conflict 5. The Friar who Heals 6. Demonology and
Possession 7. Father Rochus, the Exorcist 8.. The Background of a Conflict:
the Catholic Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment in eighteenth-century
Hungary 9. The Humblest Servant. Subjective Impressions about the
Reflection of an Eighteenth Century Priest's Personality 10. Epilogue